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Gold Streak.
J Benjamin & Co
Zephyr
[ Metcalf & Co
Attalus
WISCONSIN HILL MINES.
Kidder ..
..
M Smith
De Kruse.
=
Mrs Hill ...
34,000 00
Byrne & hish.
..
Jos Byrne
13,000 00
Belty
hydraulic
Wm Belty
103,000 on
Hurman
Id'ft & hydr'e H Horman & Co.
Sebastopol
..
James Gleeson
13,000 00
Garrity .
.4
James Gleeson
350,000 00
Zurmuchler
"hydraulic
. 'F Zurinuchler
100,000 00
Tenvke
₹1
Ah Tom & Co
120,000 00
Vanghn
Edwards & Hammil.
6,000 01
Schwab
Irift
( W Cross. .
5,200 00
Stewart . .
. ICapt Stewart
3,300 00
Worley
Andrew Worley
25,000 0 )
Schlottman
(' Boeck.
Lebanon
Lebanon & ('0
14,000 00
l'ennsylvania .
.J Amiles & Co
GRIZZLY FLAT MINES.
Rough & Ready .
drift .
Occidental Co
150,000 00 220,000 00
Neptune ..
Grizzly Flat Co
80,000 00
B F
80,000 00
NAME OF MINE.
LENGTH OF LOCATION.
NAME OF OWNER.
Providencia
1,500 feet
Professor Blake
Australia .
1,500
Hood & Street
Winchester
Dr Romney & Co
Providencia extension.
1,500
Street & Co.
Meduncook
..
Occidental Co
Julian
1,500
Rodoni & Co.
( 'linton
1
A Hazelroth
320,000 00
St. Bernard.
1,500
.4 Rossi & Co
165,000 00 12,000 00
Koen.
drift
M Koen & Co
Erin go Bragh
J Greenbaur.
Fritzer.
S Fritzer & Co
1,500 00
Snmpter.
hydraulic
J F Van Diver
25,000 00
Elizabeth
=
Mrs Hill
60,000 00
Blakey ..
=
J Blakey
1,100 00
De Kruse.
drift
F De Kruse
Knox
W Knox
Wm Bissett & Co
Dead Ox.
W' L Anderson & Co
MAIN RIDGE MINES.
Oro
Mountain View
JM Smith.
Mountain View No 2
J M Smith.
Star ..
Anderson & Macy
Mohawk
Mohawk ('o.
Surprise
C F Macy & Co.
OF Petterson & Co
White Pine.
.4
A Phillips.
80,000 00
Colfax
drift IJ H Neff & Co ......
Stubh Twist
d'ft & hydr'e Worsley & Southwick.
756,000 00
13,400 00
Hidden Tr of S'y South
Hidden Treasure Co.
Empire ..
805,000 00
Derby Dam
Dam & l'o
160,000 00 85,000 00
Aurora .
Aurora
Morning Star.
Id'ft & hydr'e John Coleman & Co .
4,500 00
Bear Hunter.
drift
F Chappellet & Co. .
Golden Fleece
d'ft & hydr'c F Shirmier & Co.
New Basel Con
drift
Britton, Rey & Co
Maredon
Whiskey Hill .. .
Spartan & Uncle Sam
J B Brown & Co ...
L'union
CANADA HILL MINES.
Reed
d'It & hydr'e John White.
Wiley
Robt Wiley & Co.
234,000 00 11,000 00
Enterprise.
drift
D Flynn
1,300 00
Total Goll produced from hydraulic and deep gravel drift mining $10,144,570 00 Produced by canon and surface mining .. 10,000,000 00
Total on Iowa Hill Divide
.820,144.570 00
No reliable data can be obtained as to the product of river mining in this region.
The above figures are from the books of the min- ing companies, of the express companies, merchants and gold-dust buyers; but as most of the books of the Companies referred to, have been destroyed by the various fires to which the mining towns have been subject, they are, in most cases, very short of the true product, while from many no returns could be obtained. Nearly double the amount given is believed to have been produced in this region.
QUARTZ MINES.
The following are the quartz mines located and developed in the Iowa Hill region and contiguous thereto :-
NEAR SUCCOR FLAT.
Know- Nothing .
..
153,000 00
South Side.
30,000 00
Vigilant
Wm Liddle & Co Capt Stewart & Co.
9,000 00
Dead Horse.
Me Getchen
D MeGetchen & Co
John Bowley. . .
Veridental .
NAME OF MINE.
CLASS.
NAME OF OWNERS.
GOLD PROC'D
ELIZABETH HILL MINES.
Kings Hill . .
hydraulic . IG Robinson.
Blanchard
J Blanchard & Co.
Tyner
Wm Tyner & Son
Black Oak .
San Francisco ..
G W Snyder & Co
43,000 00
West Damascus.
Miller, Mitchler & Hlohson
1,556,000 00 400,000 00
Hardin & Co
31,750 00
Cape Horn.
J & Scott.
J B Brown & Co.
38,000 00
T G Durning & Co.
24,300 00
Buckeye
Watsom & Co
59,000 00
Vinco
lowa Hill Canal Co
Win & James Hill
pay gravel Oct, 1881)
262,000 00
Copper Bottom.
d'ft & hydr'r Wm Nichols
12,000 00
Ravine Claim
.James fileeson
Mrs ITill
52,000 00
Columbia
James Gleeson
Harumil
Watts Bros
John Peters
105,000 00
100,000 00
William Jolly & Co
Snyder, Hobson & Co
. G Mitchler & Co.
Cumberland
Macy & Spencer
Smith
J F Van Driver & Co
M. S. Gardner.
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MINING LAWS.
This group of mines shows well in free gold in the croppings, and appears to extend to a considerable depth. The Providencia and Australia have tunnels near bed of cañon, and show good milling ore as far as developed.
HUMBUG CANON QUARTZ MINES.
NAME OF MINE.
LENGTH OF LOCATION.
NAMES OF OWNERS.
Pioneer
6,000 feet
J. H. Neff & E. G. Spencer
Poole
3,000
A. W. Poole & Co
Poole
3,000
Dorer
1,75€
Poole & Dorer
66
extension .
1.500
Brown & Co,
C'entral E. exten. Boss .
3,000
P. Bernard
Odgers & Pasco .. .
3,000
Odgers, Pasco & C'o.
Keller ..
6,000
H. Keller & Co.
Keller extension ...
1,500
John Allen
Pioneer extension
3,500
O. H. Petterson & Co
Lynn.
4,500
Snyder & Lynn
Potosi & Passaic
3,000
E. C. Uren & Son
CANADA HILL QUARTZ MINES.
Patras.
1,500 feet
Pedroles & Brown
Buena Vista.
1,500 66
J. B. Brown & Co
lowa Hill.
1,500
Sterrett
1,500
Winters, Sterrett & Hobson
Olga
1,500
Theodore Winters
MINES HAVING STAMP MILLS.
NAME OF MILL.
CLASS.
POWER.
SO. & AMI8
OWNERS,
Morning Star. .
cement
steam
10
J. Coleman & Co
Columbus
16
20
Jos Byrne
Bob Lewis.
Lewis & Griffith
Poole
quartz
water
5
Poole & C'o.
WATER DITCHES.
The following are the ditches carrying water for mining purposes on the lowa Hill Divide, with
NAME OF DITCII.
MILES IN| INCHES LENGTH WATER.
SOURCE OF SUPPLY.
OWNERS.
Towa Hill Canal Big Secret Br ..
Humbug Branch
40
3000
lowa Hlill Canal ('o.
El Dorado Branch
Shirt-tail Brancl.
El Dorado Cañon (surplus) Surplus water of Shirt-tail Canon
Priest Ditch.
1000
First right to water
Union
12
400
North Br Shirt-
North Indian.
3
2.0
tail C'añon Ist right Indian Cañon, .st right ..
Mrs. A. Hill
South
100
Indian Cañon, 2d right ..
Little Humbug Mckee
1
100
North Br. Humbug
20
700
of
Vaughn.
9
400
Snail Cañon. Indian C'añon
.. Ah Tom & Co Wm. Weisler
Orion ..
3
50
Orion Mining Co.
l'anada Hill,
7
250
Screw Anger Can. J. White
Of the history of the above mentioned quartz mines Mr. Hobson writes :-
THIE SHIRT-TAIL CANON QUARTZ MINES.
The " Providencia " was first discovered in 1852 by Robert Bowley and others, who found a rich chute of ore in the bed of Shirt-tail Canon, the lode being about three feet in width. Owing to the water and hardness of wall rock, which is a hard slate, nothing further had been done to develop the mine until October, 1881, when it was re-located by S. P. Drury, who started a tunnel on the lode at a point thirty feet above the bed of the canon. The quartz, so far as developed by this tunnel, is found, by
assay, to contain sufficient free gold to justify the erection of a mill. Professor Blake, of New York, has recently purchased one-half of the Providencia. and intends erecting a mill in the summer of 1882.
The " Australia " appears to be a large spur of the Providencia. and is, so far as developed by a tunnel, a gold-bearing vein. This is owned by Hood & Street, who have also made arrangements for the erection of a mill in the summer of 1882.
The "Julian " and "St. Bernard " are locations made in December, 1881, by Rossi, Rodoni & Co., who discovered rich gold-bearing quartz in the crop- pings, which are from three to six feet in width, and indicate the presence of a strong permanent vein, with a foot-wall of slate and a hanging-wall of serpentine.
HUMBUG CANON MINES DESCRIBED.
The IFumbug Canon quartz veins are found in a belt of country rock composed of alternate belts of black laminated slate, greenstone and talcose slate. The quartz veins are found between the slate form- ing the west wall and the greenstone the east or foot-wall. This belt of country carrying quartz veins begins about Hayden Hill, in Green Valley. east of the great serpentine belt, which crosses the country north and south across the North and Mid dle Forks of the American, and extends east to a point on the North Fork about north of Indian Springs.
All the several mines located have chutes of gold- bearing quartz, accompanied by iron pyrites and galena. which. judging from the developments on the several veins at several points varying in alti- tude from 2,500 feet near the bed of the American River on the south side in the Poole Mine and as high as, 4,000 feet in the " Pioneer." .. Keller," and the " Lynn " lodes, and on the north side of the river to the " Dorer," " Central," and " Boss " lodes, where tunnels are at an altitude of 4.300 feet, will prove to be permanent gold-producing quartz mines. The white quartz gravel forming the upper channel in the Mountain Gate Mine overlies this belt of gold-bearing quartz lodes, and probably accounts for the presence of the numerous gold-bearing bowl- ders found in that mine, as well as the gold. which resembles gold broken from a quartz matrix, its fineness being about 850, while the gold found in the deep blue channel is 930 fine, where the gravel is composed almost entirely of hard slate and other rock, quartz being but seldom met with.
The " Pioneer" is the most important, it being developed to a greater extent than any of the other mines. This was discovered about 1853 by James Lynn and sold for a few hundred dollars to parties who erected a rude ten-stamp mill and ernshed the first ten tons of quartz croppings, which yielded 810,000. The mine was worked for several years with varying success. A difficulty in the successful working of the lower grade of quartz being an insuffi- cient supply of water to run the battery. This
28
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F. Zurna hler
Weisler
32
50
South Branch Shirt-tail
30
of Shirt-tail C'añon
Tadpo'e Cañion .. . Secret C'añon .. Humbug tañon
3,000
C'entral Co.
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HISTORY OF PLACER COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.
first mill was finally destroyed by fire, after which the mine fell into the hands of McClelland & Co., who erected a new mill and worked the mine for several years successfully when sufficient water was to be had. The property next fell into the hands of John Coleman & Co., after which the mill was again destroyed by fire. The present owners are J. H. Neff, E. G. Spencer & Co., who have recently made important developments, having driven two tunnels, one cutting the lode at a depth of 180 feet below the old works, exposing rich gold-bearing (quartz, and another tunnel 400 feet below the old works, also exposing quartz bearing gold in suffi- cient quantity to pay handsomely for milling. These last developments prove positively the permanence of the Pioneer Mine as a future gold producer. It is stated on good authority that the Pioneer has pro- duced between $75,000 and $100,000 in gold.
The " Poole " was also discovered at an early day, about 1854 or 1855, by L. P. Burnham, and was worked for some time with a rude five-stamp mill by Burnham & Poole. Burnham's interest was pur- chased by Poole & Co. in 1879, who erected a five- stamp mill near Humbug Cañon, and built a tram- way from the mine to the mill. The Superintend- ent is Mr. Parker, who states that the quartz taken from the mine yields from $18.00 to $28.00 per ton, and has paid all the expenses and cost of development. The lode appears to be a well-defined and perma- nent vein, whose croppings are readily traced on both sides of the south branch of the North Fork of the American River, to the ridges where it is covered by the volcanic capping.
The " Dorer" lode, on the north side of the East Branch, is also a gold-bearing vein about one mile east of the Poole. Several crushings of the ore have been made at the Poole Mill, yielding about $18.00 per ton.
The " Boss" lode, also on the north side, is the largest vein of the Humbug Canon group, being about eight feet in width, the quartz yielding about 87.00 a ton.
The " Central" lies between and is parallel to the Dorer and Boss, cropping on the slope of the precipitous cañon.
The " Keller" lode crops high on the mountain sonth of the Poole and west of the Pioneer. A tunnel cuts the vein at a depth of forty feet, showing its width to be three feet, from which the rock yields 836.00 per ton.
The " Lynn" lode is on the brow of the canon southwest of the Poole. Several prospect holes on the croppings expose the vein, which varies from one to three feet in thickness, the rock yielding from $7.00 to $14.00 per ton by assay.
The " Bernard," on the hill on the south side of the river, appears to be an extension of the Boss lode, as croppings are almost continuously in sight from the mine down to and across the river to the Boss. The Bernard has been uncovered by sluicing. The vein is a mixture of laminated talcose slate and
quartz, is about thirty feet thick, much decomposed and yields considerable of its gold by sluice washing. In this manner it has been worked profitably since 1879.
CANADA HILL QUARTZ MINES.
The "Buena Vista" and "Iowa Hill" lodes have both been opened and prospected by a tunnel one hundred feet below the croppings, the tunnel first cutting the vein of the Buena Vista, which, on driv- ing levels, proved to be a pipe vein, the quartz yield- ing 838.00 per ton at the quartz mill. The tunnel was continued and a cross-cut driven to cut the Iowa Hill lode, which, on development, proved to be a vein similar in character to the Buena Vista, but having a course almost at right angles to the first-named mine. It also carries high grade quartz. There is also a shaft on each mine, connecting with the tun- nel, although exposing about 2,300 tons of quartz above the tunnel level. Some $12,000 has been ex- pended in the development of these mines by Messrs Van Vactor, Brown and Petterson, a mill being all that is necessary to put the mine in operation.
The "Patras lode" has a rich chute of specimen rock which has been worked to the depth of thirty fect by Messrs. Brown and Pedrolos, who extracted the gold by crushing the rock in a band mortar.
The "Sterrett Mine" on Sailor Canon, in township 16 north, range 13 east, is on an immense lode of gold-bearing quartz, and gives promise of developing into a large, permanent mine. The east wall of the vein is a hard syenite, and the west wall is a pecu- liar laminated black slate, showing numerous fossil amonites, and is the only belt of rock on the Iowa Hill Divide, to my knowledge, carrying fossils. Two tunnels have been run in prospecting the vein. Tun- nel No.1 was driven to cross-ent it at a depth of thirty feet below the surface, which exposed eighteen feet of dark blue laminated quartz heavily charged with arsenical pyrites and galena. Samples from this cross- ent yield by assay from 85.00 to $63.00 per ton, the richest quartz being found near the walls. Tunnel No. 2 cut the vein 300 feet below the croppings, ex- posing eighteen feet of quartz similar to that found above. Average samples of the vein were taken out and packed on mules to be tested by mill process, and yielded 87.00 per ton in free gold and three per vent. of sulphurets yielding $400 per ton. The own- ers intend to drive another tunnel to test the value of the vein at a depth of 500 feet before machinery will be put on the mine.
REPORT ON MINES.
In April, 1881. Mr. Hobson made a report of his examination of the Independence Hill, Whiskey Hill and other gravel mines of the Iowa Hill Divide con- taining a large amount of valuable information relat- ing to mining in general, and of certain mines in particular, which will be condensed as far as practi- cable and applicable to the purpose of this work in the following. The special reference is to the Inde-
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MINING LAWS.
pendence Hill, Blue Wing, Union, Columbia. Sebas- topol, and Gleeson, hydraulie gravel mines, and the West Damascus Consolidated, Alameda Consolidated, and Union, drift gravel mines.
The greater number of the mines immediately in the vicinity of Iowa Hill were extensively worked in early days by drifting only, the bottom gravel hav- ing been exceeding rich and paid immensely, and, with a few exceptions, were worked out on the bot- tom. The Morning Star, Columbus, Stockton and San Francisco, the Watts and Worley mines at Grizzly Flat, not yet worked out, but will pay well for drifting for several years to come. A large num- ber of the mines are now worked by hydraulic, working off the top gravel-and the bottom where not already worked. This class of mining, where large heads of water and proper flumes and under- currents are used, is proving remunerative to those engaged in it. The annual yield during late years of the mines about Iowa IIill, including Bird's Flat, Strawberry Flat, Grizzly Flat, and Wisconsin Hill, is about 8160,000. The total amount of gold taken out of the Iowa Hill Divide, up to the present time, is a mere nothing compared to the amount to be taken out in the future. This statement Mr. Hobson feels safe in making, having based his opinion on the area of ground worked out in the past, and the im- mense area of both hydraulic and drift ground to be worked in the future. The great body of the Divide, from the Watts Mine, near lowa Hill, to Secret House, a distance by the blue gravel channel of about sixteen miles, is almost untouched. This blne gravel channel, about 600 feet in width, with white quartz and other auriferous deposits of much greater width and depth, is known to be rich in gold, but can only be reached by long bed-rock tunnels, or sinking deep shafts.
Extensive drift mining is now carried on success- fully at six different places along the line of the blue gravel channel in the main ridge, beginning on the west with the Watts Mine and going east. First the Suceor Flat, then the Giant Gap, next the Mountain Gate, the Bob Lewis and Dam claims on tributaries, and last the Whiskey Hill, all contain ing rich gravel.
The Succor Flat Mine is producing fine gold at the rate of $12.00 per day to each man using a piek in the mine, besides numerous nuggets found weighing from two ounces to sixty-six ounces, and is paying dividends.
The Giant Gap Mine is owned by a Boston com- pany, who opened it by a tunnel of 1,600 feet in length and struek pay gravel in November, 1881.
The Mountain Gate Company, of Damascus, struck the blue gravel channel after running a tunnel of seven thousand feet. The company had worked on a stratum of white quartz gravel for a period of twenty-five years, the channel running south with a fall of about sixty feet to the mile. While thus working under the main ridge, which is capped with
a body of lava seven hundred feet in thickness, they came suddenly against the lava cutting across the old quartz channel. This at first appeared the end of their mining. Above the white quartz had been a stratum of pipe clay, above that volcanie mud and other volcanic matter, and over all the solid lava. Sinking in the lava which they encountered in the breast of their mine they found its bottom resting on such volcanic matter as was above the pipe clay, and further sinking revealed the remarkable deposit, or channel, of blue gravel. It was a mine lost and found again, richer by far than the favorite white quarzt. Top of Forks House Ridge,
Bed of Damasru4
a
b
b
C
C
F
North
SECTION THROUGH MOUNTAIN GATE MINE.
« Lava flowing from the east. b. Volvanir sediment. c. Stratum of pipe clay. d. White quartz gravel channel, flowing south at an inchne of sixty feet per mile. That north of the intruding lava is worked out. e. Brown cement between lava and blue gravel. f. Blue gravel channel, thirty feet in thick- ne-s of gravel, 600 feet wide, and eighty feet below white quartz channel. g. Mountain Gate Tunnel, 7,000 feet in length, under the white quartz chan- Del, ant to blne gravel channel h. Upraises to gravel channel i. Incline to blue gravel channel. j. Bed-rock of blue slate.
The blue gravel was found eighty feet below the white quartz gravel. The old workings of the Mountain Gate Company in the quartz, or upper gravel, yielded $1,500,000, and the working of the lower, or blue gravel, yields 85.000 per month. The upper gravel paid at the rate of $2.00 per load, or cubic yard in the bank, while the blue gravel yields 86.00 per cubie yard on the bottom, the whole 600 by thirty feet averaging $3.00 per yard. Twenty- one men are employed in mining, that number sup- plying all the gravel that the machinery in use is able to hoist from the blue gravel channel to the tunnel level. There are twenty-one shares in the mine, the shares occasionally changing hands at from $35,000 to 840,000. The developments of this company during 1881 have proven that the blue gravel channel is 600 feet in width, all pay gravel, and that it is a channel eighty feet below the white gravel channel, entting the latter at right angles and eroding a bed in the underlying rock.
THE HIDDEN TREASURE MINE
Was first located by William Cameron, on the 3d of January, 1870, as the Cameron Mine, embracing 254 acres; subsequently, in 1874, a claim of 160 acres adjoining upon the east was consolidated with it under the name it now bears. Mr. Cameron for many years bad been an observant miner and a work- ing owner in the Mountain Gate Mine, at Damasens, upon the extensive auriferous channel which has there been explored, and for many years successfully worked, and while thus delving in that mine had
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HISTORY OF PLACER COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.
conceived a theory of his own in relation to the course and action of those ancient channels. Acting upon this theory, in the dead of winter he left Damascus, made the location on the Hidden Treasure, and soon after began a tunnel on the border of a small ravine west of where the present opening has been made. This first tunnel was driven into the hill a distance of 602 feet, when the proprietors became convinced that the locality way unfavorable, and it was aecord- ingly abandoned. Mr. Cameron then (in May, 1875,) in company with Mr. M. II. Power, made a survey from the Mountain Gate, and selected the site of the tun- nel through which the mine is now worked, at the head of Blacksmith Canon, a small tributary of El Dorado C'añon.
This tunnel was begun in hard cemented gravel which overlies a stratum of gold-bearing gravel that is locally known as the Black Channel, and continued in this material for a distance of 450 feet, when the face of the tunnel encountered soft slate bed-rock, into which it was driven fifty feet further. At this point the theory entertained by the projector was that above him must be encountered the continua- tion of the white quartz channel coming down from Damascus, and which up to that time had been so extensively and profitably worked in the Mountain Gate Mine. Therefore an upraise was made, and a distance of 30 feet brought the shaft into the overly ing stratum, one-half' the size of the opening being where the lava cement connected with bed-rock, and the other half in the white quartz auriferons gravel identical with that of the mine at Damascus-a remarkably close calculation and lucky result. The gravel prospected well, and the first gold thus found was brought to light February 10, 1876-a litt'e over six years after the location was first made.
Since this time the Hidden Treasure Mine has been continuously worked, and the amount of gold pro- duced has been great. The channel has been explored to the width of 620 feet, and the extreme breadth not yet determined; and a length along the channel of 3,250 feet has been driven for breasting, with no perceptible change in richness. About 70 men are constantly employed at the mine, and in working it the bed-rock is eut down into on an aver- age of 2 feet deep, and only about 4 feet of the gravel above it removed, leaving an unknown quantity overhead. About 85,000 laggings and 14,500 square timbers, 7x8, 5 feet long, 10x12, 6 feet long, and 14x14, 63 feet long, have been annually used in the mine, at a cost of 2} cents each. for lagging, and for posts from 10 cents each to $1.50 per set for those for the main tunnel.
Until the present time (January, 1882), the gravel taken from the mine has been conveyed in cars drawn by mules, but a locomotive engine has been ordered from Philadelphia, to supersede the animal power- the old method of conveyance being found too slow, the gravel being soft and easily prepared for removal. With this view, the tunnels are now being prepared
for the new motor; 2.200 feet of T rail, 30 pounds to the yard, is already laid; the locomotive is expected to consume 500 pounds of anthracite coal (which has to be exported from Pennsylvania) each 24 hours that it is in constant operation, and will easily haul 50 loaded cars holding a ton each. Necessarily in properly opening a mine of this magnitude and char- acter, a great deal of dead work must be done, which has been the case with this mine; and thus it is that with more than 10,000 feet in length along the pay channel, having a known width of over 600 feet, as yet but about 2,000 feet in length by 300 feet in width has been breasted out, with uniform and continuous.results.
Originally there were 36 shares in the company, which, by the way, has never been incorporated. Some of those named among the original locators, however, becoming skeptical as to the successful ending of the venture, as they were from time to time called upon for small assessments to defray the expense of exploring during the six years in which the work was prosecuted with no gold in sight, sold out for the simple amount they had disbursed. Mr. Cameron, with an abiding faith in the ultimate cor- rectness of his theory, became the purchaser of many of the shares of the malcontents, until he was pos- sessed of 15 shares of the original 36 at the time gold was struck in the tunnel. The eost assessed to each share from the beginning until then was only 872; while a further expense of 81,100 was all that was required to fit up dumping boxes, sluices, hose, pipe, etc., for washing the paying gravel. Several of those who sold out for the amount of assessments have since bought shares at priees varying from 82,500 to $5,000.
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